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March 11, 1987
SP96
Patricia Martin, Director
KATHLEEN GALOTTI
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Carleton College
Office: (507) 663-4375 or 4031
Home: (50/7) 645-4309
STEVEN KOZBERG
Counseling Psychologist
Carleton College
Office: (507) 663-4080 or 4372
Home: (612) 925-5176
Is it true that women see relationships and careers very
differently from the way men do?
Much recent popular and scholarly literature suggests there are
important sex differences in how individuals view such obligations,
but a new study by researchers at Carleton College found that men and
women think alike, at least about these kinds of commitments.
Psychologists Kathleen M. Galotti and Steven F. Kozberg asked
college students to list the factors they considered in making the
following commitments: choosing courses, choosing a major, choosing a
career, choosing a friend, choosing a romantic partner and choosing a
lifelong partner. They also asked the students to write an essay
defining "commitment."
Their results, to be published in the Journal of Youth and
Adolescence later this year, found few significant differences in the
thinking of women and men on any of the questions asked. Men and
women listed roughly the same number of factors they said they
considered for each specific commitment, and listed the same types of
factors. Women were slightly more likely than men to list
non-stereotypical factors. Both men and women listed more factors, a
wider variety of factors , and more original factors for the
interpersonal commitments than for the academic/career ones.
(more)

March 11, 1987
SP96
Patricia Martin, Director
KATHLEEN GALOTTI
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Carleton College
Office: (507) 663-4375 or 4031
Home: (50/7) 645-4309
STEVEN KOZBERG
Counseling Psychologist
Carleton College
Office: (507) 663-4080 or 4372
Home: (612) 925-5176
Is it true that women see relationships and careers very
differently from the way men do?
Much recent popular and scholarly literature suggests there are
important sex differences in how individuals view such obligations,
but a new study by researchers at Carleton College found that men and
women think alike, at least about these kinds of commitments.
Psychologists Kathleen M. Galotti and Steven F. Kozberg asked
college students to list the factors they considered in making the
following commitments: choosing courses, choosing a major, choosing a
career, choosing a friend, choosing a romantic partner and choosing a
lifelong partner. They also asked the students to write an essay
defining "commitment."
Their results, to be published in the Journal of Youth and
Adolescence later this year, found few significant differences in the
thinking of women and men on any of the questions asked. Men and
women listed roughly the same number of factors they said they
considered for each specific commitment, and listed the same types of
factors. Women were slightly more likely than men to list
non-stereotypical factors. Both men and women listed more factors, a
wider variety of factors , and more original factors for the
interpersonal commitments than for the academic/career ones.
(more)